Stephen Elliott came up the hard way; fleeing his abusive father, he was raised in Chicago's rough foster home system. His brutally honest, faintly seedy, undeniably gritty writing reflects his misery. Elliott's work, both fiction and nonfiction, is often concerned with S&M sex, illegal drugs, slum life, and his difficult childhood. His prose is sometimes cold and unemotional, sometimes warm and charming; either way, Elliott is cathartic and confessional. Start with: Happy Baby (Fiction); The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Nonfiction)

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Stephen Elliott came up the hard way; fleeing his abusive father, he was raised in Chicago's rough foster home system. His brutally honest, faintly seedy, undeniably gritty writing reflects his misery. Elliott's work, both fiction and nonfiction, is often concerned with S&M sex, illegal drugs, slum life, and his difficult childhood. His prose is sometimes cold and unemotional, sometimes warm and charming; either way, Elliott is cathartic and confessional. Start with: Happy Baby (Fiction); The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Nonfiction)